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policemen.After quite a nifty dodge, the kids escape the clutches of the thugs, and head back to Arun’s house. Sure enough, the place is crawling with plain-clothes police officers and ... spooks.The kids sneak in through the backdoor and start eavesdropping. It seems that Arun’s father, Krishan Lal, didn’t make it to work that day, his car having been hijacked before he was bundled into a 4x4 and kidnapped.
Now someone is after his laptop. Someone close to him, someone who knows about MANDROID, the futuristic AI that the British government are hoping to add to their secret tech supply. MANDROID can be anything they want it to be: a mine-sweeper, a drone, a submarine, a plane.And it can be invisible...
In the wrong hands, it can also be a weapon.
Arun’s father finds himself, battered and bruised, in
a windowless room with a man wearing a mask and disguising his voice.The man rolls over a trolley bearing surgical instruments and suggests that Arun’s dad starts talking. Specifically, Krishan should tell the man with the scalpel where his laptop is and what his passcode is...
Meanwhile, over at MI6, there’s a lot of confusion and no small amount of fury. How can this have happened? Only a handful of people knew about MANDROID.Who told the bad guys?
While they’re working it out, Arun, Sam and Donna are on the case.With a bit of nifty footwork, they find and break into Arun’s dad’s laptop.They delete lots of